Sadiq Khan attends an official signing ceremony at Southwark Cathedral in London as he begins his first day as the newly elected mayor of the city on May 7, 2016.Yui Mok-WPA Pool/Getty Images

London elected its first Muslim mayor on Friday. He is a 45-year-old first-generation Englishman and former human rights lawyer.

Sadiq Khan, 45, of the Labour Party, won with over 57 percent of the total vote, according to The Independent. Khan ran on a platform of building more affordable housing (he grew up in “subsidized housing” in a now gentrifying London neighborhood with his Pakistani bus-driver father, seamstress mother and seven siblings) and lowering transportation fares for working-class people in a city of over 8.6 million.